“The Offer Will Not Be Repeated”

Sandra Beasley is the author of Count the Waves (Norton, 2015); I Was the Jukebox (Norton, 2010), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; Theories of Falling (New Issues, 2008); and the disability memoir Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (Crown, 2011). She is the editor...